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the Castle Hill at Cambridge. The first inquiry that sug¬ 
gests itself, in a view of this extraordinary scene, naturally in¬ 
volves the original cause of the veneration in which the place 
was anciently held. Does it denote the site of Pagus lliensi - 
nm , whose inhabitants believed that their village stood on the 
site of ancient Troy ?* This place was distant thirty stadiaf 
from the Hew Ilium of Strabo; and the distance corresponds with 
the relative situation of this hill and Palaio Callifat or OldCalli- 
fat , where Hew Ilium stood; as will hereafter be proved. 
Or may it be considered the eminence^ described by Strabo as 
the beautiful colone , five stadia^ in circumference, near which 
Simois flowed; and Tchiblack, the Pagus lliensium ? It was 
rather more than a mile distant|| from the Village of the Ile- 
ans, and stood above it; exactly as this hill is situated with 
regard to Tcbibiask.** 
It will now be curious to observe, whether an inscription 
we discovered here does not connect itself with these inquiries. 
It was found upon the fluted marble shaft of a Doric pillar tww 
feet in diameter; so constructed, as to contain a cippus, or 
inscribed slab, upon one side of k ;|f presenting the following, 
characters : 
* Strab. Geogr. lib. xiii. p. 861. Ed. Ox. 
f Three English miles and six furlongs, 
t 'H ipKn Kptovn.Auipos tis. 
§ Rather more than half ^ mile. 
11 Ten stadia. 
It is a feature of Nature so remarkable, and so artificially characterized at this 
hour, that future travellers will do well to give it due attention. In our present state 
of ignorance concerning Troas,^\Q must proceed with diffidence and caution; no- 
' thing has been decided concerning the side of the plain on which this hill stands, and' 
where all the objects most worthy of attention seerii to me concentrated. I do not 
hesitate in expressing a conviction, that when the country shall have been properly 
examined on the northeastern sideof the Mmder, instead of the southwestern, ma¬ 
ny of the difficulties impeding a reconciliation of Homer’s Poems with the geography 
of the country, will be done away. This has not yet been attempted. 
tt The cippus, or inscribed part of the pillar, was two.Ieet ele ven inches long? an# 
:wo feat four inches -wide. 
